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Clang may emit absolute symbol references when building in non-PIC mode, even when using the default 'small' code model, which is already mostly position independent to begin with, due to its use of adrp/add pairs that have a relative range of +/- 4 GB. The remedy is to pass the -fpie flag, which can be done safely now that the code has been updated to avoid GOT indirections (which may be emitted due to the compiler assuming that the PIC/PIE code may end up in a shared library that is subject to ELF symbol preemption) Passing -fpie when building code that needs to execute at an a priori unknown offset is arguably an improvement in any case, and given that the recent visibility changes allow the PIC build to pass with GCC as well, let's add -fpie for all arm64 builds rather than only for Clang. Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170818194947.19347-5-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.